tls negotiation failed

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hallo frontin,

--On 5. Dezember 2007 11:28:37 +0100 frontin <frontin at irit.fr> wrote:

> I installed a cyrus-imap server which is running nice. I tested it with
> imtest. With an other host, a thunderbird 2 client I am trying to send a
> mail. I use tls protocol and a plaintext password.
> The mail comes into the good mailbox (I see it in
> /var/spool/imap/f/user/fuser. But I have an alert message on my client
> (timeout). It seems that the message cannot be recorded as a received
> message on the server.

no, that's not the problem.

> Here is, below, what I obtain in /var/log/maillog.
>
> Example 1 :
> Dec  3 09:41:58 dell2 imaps[21484]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: agly
> [111.222.333.444]
> Dec  3 09:41:58 dell2 imaps[21484]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls()
> failed
> Dec  3 09:41:58 dell2 master[11973]: process 21484 exited, status 75
> dec  3 09:41:58 dell2 master[11973]: service imaps pid 21484 in BUSY
> state: terminated abnormally

That means that (for whatever reason) TB2 can't successfully negotiate a 
TLS connection with the server. Perhaps you should try some other way of 
authentication?
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